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Hallmark Features
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- Avoids unnecessary mathematics: The text presents mathematics on a need-to-know basis, and focuses only on those derivations and vector identities that are essential to the student's understanding of the material. Line and surface integrals covered in Chapter 2, and Divergence and Curl are delayed until Chapter 4, presenting material in a "just in time" manner.
- Presents many practical applications: The author has carefully selected applications (along with photographs) from two areas: digital system design and electromagnetic interference, or electromagnetic compatibility.
- Promotes visualization skills: The focus on applications helps students develop visualization skills necessary to the design and development of digital technologies and modern systems.
- Emphasizes time-varying fields: Reduced coverage of static (dc) fields enables users to sufficiently focus on time-varying fields, which have a large number of exciting engineering applications.
- Provides example problems and quick review exercises: These pedagogical aids help students reinforce and assess their understanding of each new concept and law.
- Designed for one-semester course: Paul addresses the needs of the one-semester course and focuses on conveying fundamental electromagnetic principles and laws as they apply to designing high speed and high frequency systems. Most existing texts provide treatment appropriate for a two-semester sequence that is falling out of favor in the modern undergraduate Electrical Engineering curriculum.
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